John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. 

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards. 

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. 

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with local management team to provide insightful financial and commercial support to decision making.
• Participate key strategic planning activities of the business, including budgeting, FQ and annual strategic planning process and lead the preparation of needed data in local company to ensure accurately and timely submission of budgets and forecasts.
• Work closely with operation team to enhance fixed assets, inventory and cost management and measurement of operational performance, ensure the realness and integrity of assets, participate local investment preparation and review.
• Ensure appropriate monthly financial closing and reporting (group and local), develops key financial measures and analysis to track overall business performance and implementing cost control and business corrective actions where necessary,
• Provide to management team monthly management reporting deck with business commentary and analysis to guide the respective company achieve the business and financial targets, participates or leads financial reviews with senior management for country/region reviews.
• Participate agent/distributer appointment/renewal review, sales commission review.
• Drive working capital improvement through credit control, inventory and cash management.
• Ensure the control environment is maintained and compliance of company operations to all applicable regulations and standards, statutory requirements (e.g. finance, tax, statistics, industry and commerce, etc.) and company documented procedures with the support by regional FCOE team, and business is provided with robust and compliant financial policies and procedures.
• Identify, develop and adopt continuous improvement opportunities in financial processes, lead DOA review and internal control process review and self-check.
• Lead annual CSA with support from FCOE; Manage internal and external audit processes and relationships; and ensure all audit issues are closed timely and meet requirements.
• Works closely with reginal common finance shared service team and ensure that there is a proper communication between site, FCOE, division and group.
• Co-ordinate and support on global / regional finance projects
• Other ad hoc duties as required.

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience of working in well-established global multinationals with matrix reporting structures. 
• 8-10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis for China or Asia.
• 5+ years of people management experience with ability to relate to staff at all levels.
• Good communication skills in both English and Chinese
• Strong exposure to financial control; budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• Experience in data management and analysis, including use of business reporting and finance systems like SAP, Hyperion, Oracle etc.
• Self-motivated and able to work with high degree of independence
• Excellent skills in MS Excel, Power point and Access
• JV finance working and leading experience as strong plus
• Qualified Chartered Accountant from a recognized professional accountancy body as plus.
• Experience of working with Finance shared service as plus.

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity. 

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network. 

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future. 

我们相信不同的视角和背景是公司繁荣发展的原因。所有合格的申请人将无论种族、肤色、宗教、性别、性取向、性别认同、国籍、经济状况、残疾、年龄或任何其他法律保护的特征，均平等考虑就业机会。我们自豪地成为一个以平等和道德为基础的价值观的包容性公司，在这里我们庆祝、支持并拥抱多样性。 在招聘过程中，无论何时，Flex-Tek, Smiths Group或我们的任何招聘合作伙伴都不会要求支付任何费用以启动参与过程 — 包括但不限于面试或测试。通过我们的职业网站直接申请工作以避免欺诈请求（职业生涯 - Smiths Group plc）。